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...what? WWE Fantasy came back? Why did nobody tell me about this?!

Wayyyyy too many recaps. I understand last week was NYE and all, but, man, fuck these recap videos.

Did that ECW commercial just call Chavo a new PRETENDER to the throne? Man, even the voiceover guy doesn't take him as a serious threat.

....oh goddamnit. Fuck Ashley. Edit: Love Jillian and Melina no-selling Ashley's return by just jumping on the bed and not paying her any attention.

Goddamnit. A rumble spot is being wasted on Mini-Eugene?

Ok. Damnit. I'll admit I laughed at Holly with the huge fro.

It was better on Heat. Charlie didn't get a chance to do any of his fake-out high flying offense.

so if Hornswoggle gets put into a Capture the Midget match, can he just give himself a hug and automatically win?

Vince doesn't even try to make it look like he's actually spinning the wheel Touching the wheel =/= spinning the wheel.

Just got home from the Raw tapings, I'll try to remember shit in order, but it might be a bit muddled up, seeing as how I just FINALLY finished driving. Pre-show/Heat matches Brian Kendrick beats "The Natural" Nick Nemeth (with nameless bodyguard) with a small package. Snitsky squashes Super Crazy DH Smith beats...someone whose name I can't remember. I seem to recall his last name being Owen. Don't remember the first. Charlie Haas jobs to Drew McIntyre after a Northern Lights suplex. Charlie's new(? maybe not new? I don't watch Heat) gimmick is him claiming to not want anything to do with being part of the Entertainment in WWE, just the Wrestling. Then halfway through the match he goes under the ring and comes out with a lucha mask on, doing full on comedy spots. Mildly amusing. Hardcore Holly over Trevor Murdoch with the Alabama Slam. And with that, it's time for Raw to begin! Video package opens the show talking about how Randy Orton is the greatest Raw superstar of 2007, and then Randy is in the ring, saying that his 2008 will be even better than his 2007, and will leave the year just how he enters it, as the WWE champion. Hardy interrupts, claims to have momentum on his side, and Orton comments that so did Jericho, HBK, and Cena. Orton promises to show Jeff how quickly momentum can change, goes to hit the RKO on him, but it gets countered into a Twist of Fate. Opening match is HBK vs. Ken Kennedy. Kennedy's mic is hanging above the ring the whole night, but he never gets to use it. Kennedy, however, does get to pin HBK *cleanly* after ducking the SCM and hitting a downward spiral for the win. Jeff backstage, when Matt Hardy comes up and says that he's planning on returning to action at the Rumble, and asks Jeff for the first WWE title shot after Jeff wins it. Umaga squashes Hacksaw Jim Duggan in a Royal Rumble Qualifying match. Vince interrupts a HHH interview to announce that if HHH loses against Flair in any way, he won't be allowed to enter the Rumble match, and then sometime later (not in the same segment) he tells Regal that he wants Regal to prove himself to him, and to administer some "tough love" to Hornswoggle in a match later. Beth Phoenix over Mickie and Melina in a triple threat Women's Championship match. Beth pins Melina with the fisherman's buster. JBL makes his grand Raw debut. And by "grand" I mean...really freaking long. And loud. And long. And really really really fucking loud. Easily the loudest pyro I've heard at a wrestling show. JBL comes out with full entrance, limo, balloons dropping from the ceiling, and just stands in the ring as the pyro shoots off at FOUR different times. Finally he talks about how he can buy whatever he wants, etc, until Jericho runs down and they have a pull-apart brawl. JBL yells at the refs backstage about how he came to Raw to save the show, and he gets treated like crap. Hornswoggle vs. Regal goes to a no-contest, apparently, as Regal has second thoughts and refuses to beat up Hornswoggle. Vince gives Regal the brass knux and demands that he hits Hornswoggle, but Regal doesn't. Vince then says that Regal isn't the man he thought he was, and to get out of his sight until he becomes that man again. Santino Marella defeats Jeff Hardy by CO after Randy Orton appears on the Tron and gives Matt Hardy the Kick O' Death, and Jeff runs backstage after him. Backstage moment where Flair tells HHH that no matter what happens in the main event, HHH will always be Flair's best friend, and that he doesn't want HHH to hold anything back. Flair beats HHH by DQ to eliminate HHH from the Rumble. Good back and forth match, with the crowd hating everything HHH did (after giving him good pops the whole rest of the night.) Flair eventually gets HHH in the Figure Four, and the crowd is eating up that HHH is about to tap, until Hunter eventually reaches the ropes. Then he IMMEDIATELY hits the Pedigree after getting up, in such a bullshit move. Regal runs down after this, and punches Flair in full view of the ref to get HHH intentionally DQed. Post-Show match is Jeff Hardy/Jericho over Orton/JBL when Jeff pins Orton with the Swanton. JBL never got into the match. Edit: Also mentioned during the commercial breaks, RAW ROULETTE returns next week!

I know it's completely random but.. During the part of the broadcast I did watch, I couldn't help but notice there's a huge TNN logo in HBK's Tron. Wow, that's just completely lazy. Shouldn't they have edited that out by now? I mean, there hasn' even BEEN a TNN in over 4 years. Edit: actually, just went and watched it on WWE.com to make sure I didn't imagine it, and there's three obvious shots of the TNN logo in the entire thing.

I once again propose that we ban Denver from the league. Sure, they didn't cost me anything this week, but I got their game wrong yet again.

MOTHER FUCKER. That's...all I can say. I'm in a state of disbelief. From 8-2 to 8-8. What the FUCK?

This is a rare week when both networks have doubleheaders, as I just found out. When I first saw it, I thought it was just some week 17 thing, but then everyone else started talking about just having one second game, so I got confused.

So am I one of the few people who has a doubleheader on both stations today? I had Carolina/TB and Jax/Houston at 1, and have Dallas/Washington and Pittsburgh/Baltimore at 4.

Oh yeah, one other post-show note. After the Flair/HHH match, but before the tag match, Big Dick Johnson came out...and got punched in the nuts by JR. Weee.

I got the feeling from watching it that it was more of a "Regal is doing this to prove his worth to Vince McMahon" Regal came out after the Pedigree, punched Flair in the head once, and walked away. I think the story is gonna be along the lines of getting HHH out of the Rumble is more important than retiring Flair, at least for this night. Now I'm trying to figure out how HHH will get back into the Rumble. He might just "randomly" spin a Royal Rumble Qualifying Match next week on the roulette wheel.

Sued over what? That's Noel Edmonds, the host of the UK version of Deal or No Deal.

I already have a Wii. It doesn't get much use.

A large part of it has to do with the fact that I'm sick of fucking around with my 360. The damn thing has worked maybe a total of 3 months out of this year.

I believe that's just the post-raw dark match. Although I do love the part in the preview where it says Even though it's being taped on Saturday.

So, that's 3 of your points I disagree with, 3 that I do agree with, and 1 that's just a lame nonsense played out joke. So..meh.

I'm getting desperately close. I think I might break down and buy a PS3 sometime soon. Someone talk me out of it, please?

Has anyone seen any of the movies in this year's Horrorfest? Just found out earlier today that it was showing in my area, and was thinking about going this upcoming weekend and seeing one or two movies in it if it was still on. Anyone seen any of the movies? Which ones are decent to good, and which ones are crap?

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